This story also appears in our University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources’ Agricultural Research Center Magazine. Stop by your local Research Center to pick up a copy! You can view the magazine online by clicking here: Road to Discovery. Located in the Green Hills region, in the north central portion of Missouri, the Forage Systems Research…
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Northern Exposure
June 27 field day at Bradford looks at managing bobwhite quail habitat
A June 27 field day at the University of Missouri’s Bradford Research Center will look at how farmers, landowners and wildlife enthusiasts can manage habitat for northern bobwhite quail. The northern bobwhite, a small upland game bird, was once abundant in Missouri, but intensive farming and other changes in land use eliminated much of its habitat. In the Midwest, bobwhite…
Bradford Hosts Quail Field Day
Annual Quail and Native Pollinator drew wildlife lovers from across the Midwest
Annual Quail and Native Pollinator drew wildlife lovers from across the Midwest.
Return of the Bird
Researchers at Quail Field Day will share ways to improve quail numbers
Bradford Research Center is like many farms across the state in that each year they grow soybeans, corn and bountiful amounts of vegetables. For years, the center near Columbia never had quail on the property. It’s a growing dilemma across the country due to habitat loss and spreading urbanization. But thanks to work in the last decade, researchers are seeing…
You’ve got quail
Modern farming techniques have erased much of the habitat of the once-abundant northern bobwhite quail, but on Hobson’s farm and others like it, the quail population is going up-without dragging profits down.
Helping Farmers Help a Hard Luck Bird
Conservation and Agriculture Need Not Be At Odds, MU Research Project Shows
Things have been rough for the bobwhite quail since the 1950s when intensive “fence row to fence row” farming destroyed much of their habitat. Today’s quail population is about one-fifth of what it was during those days.